Dave Brat Quotes

The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.

The media is absolutely essential to the functioning of a democracy. It's not our job to cozy up to power. We're supposed to be the check and balance on government.

I'm very much in support of the free press, but the free press ought to be educational and informative. And I believe they have fallen down recently on that.

The function of a newspaper in a democracy is to stand as a sort of chronic opposition to the reigning quacks.

The job of media is the accountability of government.

The media has not done a great job in fulfilling their role - journalism's role in a democracy is to provide information on profoundly important subjects so we're an informed citizenry.

The state must protect the media. In a democracy, the role of media is very important. In the absence of a credible opposition party, you can rely on the media.

The job of the press is to defend their institution, hold the government accountable and freely report and gather information.

The media's job is to question a premise.

Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.

We don't go into journalism to be popular. It is our job to seek the truth and put constant pressure on our leaders until we get answers.

The democratic approach to news is a very valuable thing. We're always going to be dependent on the quality of reporting of mainstream media.

Well, thank God for a media that will ask questions.

I think people should be consumers of journalism.

I respect very much the role of the media in our society; I think they can be very, very helpful. They serve as a very useful check, sort of a watchdog over the actions of the government, and I respect that.

I don't believe that there's such a thing as objectivity in much of journalism, but I think there is a serious effort to and a regard for facts and into taking that stuff seriously is very important to the public discourse and it's very important to democracy.

I respect the press. The press and the media are a very useful watchdog to check the power of the government.

We in the media should be breaking the news and not making the news.

The most sacred cow of the press is the press itself

You hope the American people are fair. We recognize journalists have to kill somebody each week.

The media are the opposition party.

Journalism is what we need to make democracy work.

No one needs to tell me about the importance of the free press in a democratic society or about the essential role a newspaper can play in its community.

The people, as much as it's fun to hate us, they need us. They need good, strong, skeptical journalists to be covering whoever it is - whether it's Barack Obama or President Donald Trump.

There is nothing more important to a democracy than an active and engaged press.